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Quantum resource manipulation may include an ancillary state called a catalyst, which aids the transformation while restoring its original form at the end, and characterizing the enhancement enabled by catalysts is essential to reveal the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Ryuji Takagi , Naoto Shiraishi

In the classical regime, thermodynamic state transformations are governed by the free energy. This is also called as the second law of thermodynamics. Previous works showed that, access to a catalytic system allows us to restore the second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Tulja Varun Kondra , Ray Ganardi , Alexander Streltsov

Catalytic coherence transformations allow the otherwise impossible state transformations using only incoherent operations with the aid of an auxiliary system with finite coherence which is not being consumed in anyway. Here we find the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Kaifeng Bu , Uttam Singh , Junde Wu

Unspeakable coherence is a key feature separating quantum and classical physics. Modelled as asymmetry with respect to a continuous transformation generated by a physically relevant observable, such as the Hamiltonian or angular moment,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Benjamin Stratton , Chung-Yun Hsieh , Paul Skrzypczyk

Entanglement is a fundamental resource in quantum information processing, yet understanding its manipulation and transformation remains a challenge. Many tasks rely on highly entangled pure states, but obtaining such states is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Ray Ganardi , Tulja Varun Kondra , Alexander Streltsov

Quantum coherence profoundly alters classical thermodynamic expectations by modifying the structure and accessibility of probability distributions. Classically, transitions to lower-entropy states (local second-law violations) are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Andrei Tudor Patrascu

We investigate the basic constraint on amplifying the asymmetry in quantum states with correlated catalysts. Here a correlated catalyst is a finite-dimensional auxiliary, which exactly preserves its reduced state while allowed to become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 Feng Ding , Xueyuan Hu , Heng Fan

Due to conservation of energy we cannot directly turn a quantum system with a definite energy into a superposition of different energies. However, if we have access to an additional resource in terms of a system with a high degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 Johan Aberg

Quantum coherence, the ability to control the phases in superposition states is a resource, and it is of crucial importance, therefore, to understand how it is consumed in use. It has been suggested that catalytic coherence is possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Joan A. Vaccaro , Sarah Croke , Stephen M. Barnett

What are the fundamental limits and advantages of using a catalyst to aid thermodynamic transformations between quantum systems? In this work, we answer this question by focusing on transformations between energy-incoherent states under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Jakub Czartowski , A. de Oliveira Junior

The resource theory of quantum coherence is an important topic in quantum information science. Standard coherence distillation and dilution problems have been thoroughly studied. In this paper, we introduce and study the problem of one-shot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Senrui Chen , Xingjian Zhang , You Zhou , Qi Zhao

Quantum coherence, emerging from the 'superposition' of quantum states, is widely used in various information processing tasks. Recently, the resource theory of multilevel quantum coherence is attracting substantial attention. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Limei Zhang , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

In 2016, A. Winter et al.(Physical Review Letters 116 (12) (2016) 120404) provided an operational meaning to relative entropy of coherence and coherence of formation by introducing coherence distillation and dilation protocol in asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Priyabrata Char , Dipayan Chakraborty , Amit Bhar , Indrani Chattopadhyay , Debasis Sarkar

We introduce and study the task of assisted coherence distillation. This task arises naturally in bipartite systems where both parties work together to generate the maximal possible coherence on one of the subsystems. Only incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 E. Chitambar , A. Streltsov , S. Rana , M. N. Bera , G. Adesso , M. Lewenstein

We characterize the operational task of environment-assisted distillation of quantum coherence under different sets of free operations when only a finite supply of copies of a given state is available. We first evaluate the one-shot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami , Alexander Streltsov

We establish an operational theory of coherence (or of superposition) in quantum systems, by focusing on the optimal rate of performance of certain tasks. Namely, we introduce the two basic concepts - "coherence distillation" and "coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Andreas Winter , Dong Yang

Quantum coherence, which quantifies the superposition properties of a quantum state, plays an indispensable role in quantum resource theory. A recent theoretical work [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{116}, 070402 (2016)] studied the manipulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Kang-Da Wu , Zhibo Hou , Han-Sen Zhong , Yuan Yuan , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Manipulation and quantification of quantum resources are fundamental problems in quantum physics. In the asymptotic limit, coherence distillation and dilution have been proposed by manipulating infinite identical copies of states. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Qi Zhao , Yunchao Liu , Xiao Yuan , Eric Chitambar , Xiongfeng Ma

The role of coherence in quantum thermodynamics has been extensively studied in the recent years and it is now well-understood that coherence between different energy eigenstates is a resource independent of other thermodynamics resources,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Iman Marvian

Quantum states transformation under free operations plays a central role in the resource theory of coherence. In this paper, we investigate the transformation from a mixed coherent state into a pure one by using both incoherent operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 C. L. Liu , D. L. Zhou
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